Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both girls had on flapping sandals which they said a "stage-door Johnny" had given them one night. The gentleman in question being in somewhat drunken condition, had allowed them to take their pick in his shoe store, they said...
...ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization along somewhat similar lines, for which Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker was proposed as unpaid head, to help cinemagnates guide and regulate their private lives...
...contempt shown by the Dionnes for the story of Five of a Kind is by no means inexcusable. The cinema struggle to fit such curiosities into a plausible narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...
Mackinney and Mason took three firsts apiece, the former winning the two hurdles and the broad jump, while Mason won the shot put with a heave of 48 ft. 5 1/2 in., and took first honors in the javelin and discus. Mackinney's high hurdle triumph was somewhat of a hollow victory, inasmuch as he was the sole entry...
...University students as a whole are somewhat right of centre...